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by zoobab 2y ago
"The throw-away society is a human society strongly influenced by consumerism. The term describes a critical view of overconsumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired.&q
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by zoobab 2y ago
Because laws are badly designed, there are no liabilities for buggy software products.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Decentralized, but centralized.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Dave had a rtalk about Starlink at Wireless Battlemesh in Paris in 2019, we had some beers: https://media.freifunk.net/v/lightning-talk-starlink Rest in peace my friend.
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CW: Mental health, open source AI, harassment(techrights.org)
2 points by zoobab 2y ago|0 comments
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Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange(english.elpais.com)
4 points by zoobab 2y ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 2y ago
https://archive.is/QExaD
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Assange: 17,256 emails deleted from the drive of Spanish CIA military officer(elpais.com)
8 points by zoobab 2y ago|2 comments
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Patent Troll John Squires as Head of US Patent Office(ipfray.com)
6 points by zoobab 2y ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 2y ago
Soon we will be able to replace politicians by citizens. And everybody should be able to submit improvements to the law.
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by zoobab 2y ago
"disk was filled with generated zip archives" That's bad software design to generate ZIP files on the fly.
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by zoobab 2y ago
"EU is indeed drowning in mind boggling bureaucracy." Just look at how many software patents the EPO keeps printing.
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by zoobab 2y ago
"Regulating the requirement that Apple support Linux on Macs makes no sense." Not Linux, but any Operating System. They just have to publish the documentation of how the hardware works.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Make a subsidiary in Ireland, Apple paid 0% taxes by transforming every imposable EUR as a patent licence, imposed in Ireland. Then they bought US treasure bonds, where the yearly interests amounted to 50USD/american citizen. They stol
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by zoobab 2y ago
"If you get big enough, they swoop in and make you turn everything you've invented into an open standard?" Anti-monopoly laws should work, the law is already a year old, and Apple will probably appeal to Court to gain some mo
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by zoobab 2y ago
DMA does not provide any means to run Linux on Apple devices. I don't want their shitty OS, but I like their hardware. Unfortunately, the law makers prefer to cement oligopolies (Android-iPhone), instead of installing fines for not doc
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by zoobab 2y ago
"Fast cloud runners are expensive." Buy a cheap Ryzen, and put it on your desk, that's a cheap runner.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Softbank is BigOil money.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Belgian minister of Digital just proposed a law which will force mandatory eID for "social media platforms" (whatever that means). If it is the case, I will leave to greener pastures.
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by zoobab 2y ago
"Under construction" animated GIFs!
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by zoobab 2y ago
"Abandoning is not the answer." Why not? Simpler life like back in the 80s.
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Belgium plans mandatory eID for social networks(techpulse.be)
33 points by zoobab 2y ago|11 comments
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by zoobab 2y ago
Public money, public factories? There is nothing public, just free money for the private sector.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Plenty of packages still fail trying to spawn cmake, gcc and al. UV does not solve all the hard problems. Maybe switch to Pixi?
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by zoobab 2y ago
DMA is cementing a duopoly in mobile OSes. Trop break that duopoly, we need rules for hardware manufacturers to store complete spécifications in a trusted public registry, with fines if the doc is incomplete, misleading, etc...
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by zoobab 2y ago
It's more boycottfirefox.com that is needed.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Searx.be
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by zoobab 2y ago
When i see ZeroMQ in some software i use, i feel my friend Pieter still live in the code.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Nintendo just shut down some Github repos for lousy DRM claims: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-2...
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by zoobab 2y ago
Like: "You need a mobile phone number and a mobile subscription to receive an SMS to login."

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